Quinn had made arrangements for dinner with Sam and his fiancee and Tony at her condo. Tony had called her to apologize, thank her for the tickets, and get details about the dinner. She told him that she had asked another couple to join them, people he didn't know. He arrived early, and she met him in the lobby.

She hadn't seen him since the night he returned from his trip. In the lobby, she met his eyes, and her heart ached for him. He gave her his half smile and handed her a bottle of white wine and a bouquet of fresh-cut flowers, all different colors. She inhaled their scent.

"How've you been?" she asked.

"Better, I suppose. Missed talking to you," he replied, color rising in his cheeks. "I hope the flowers are okay. I liked all the different colors."

"They're perfect, Anthony." She took him to her condo.

Upstairs, she put the flowers in a vase and then on the dining room table. She lit a couple candles and put the wine on ice. She asked Tony to help her set the table.

"The people coming tonight…I went to school with Sam. I ran into him at the airport when I dropped you off…he was there to pick up his fiancee, Miri. Full disclosure, Sam and I did go out in high school."

Tony looked up at her from placing silverware. "Really? Serious?"

She shrugged. "I mean, it was high school. Is anything ever serious in high school?"

He laughed a little. "True. Sounds like a good guy."

"Yeah, he is…was…" That was her first gut instinct that maybe this dinner wasn't such a great idea.

Thirty minutes later, the four were seated at Quinn's dining room table enjoying takeout Chinese. The conversation had turned to Sam and Quinn's time in high school together.

"Quinn told me she was the head cheerleader and in Glee Club," Tony said, smiling at Quinn.

"What's Glee Club?" Miri asked.

"A group of us sang and danced and were happy…most of the time," Sam responded with a chuckle.

"You were in Glee Club, too?" Tony asked.

"Yeah, and second-string quarterback. Glee needed me for some competition."

"We'd go to different schools and compete against their glee clubs," Quinn interjected, hoping Sam would leave out the fact that they sang a duet together.

"Remember that duet we sang, Quinn? Time of My Life, wasn't it?" Sam asked.

"From Dirty Dancing?" Tony asked, his eyes wide, looking directly at Quinn. "Did you do the Big Move? You know, where you lift her up?"

Sam laughed. "No way."

"Maybe? It's been so long ago," she replied, eyeing Tony back. "One time a teacher threw a shoe at us for singing Christmas songs." She tried turning the conversation away from this topic.

Sam laughed out loud. "That was great! Remember my gold shorts for Rocky Horror?"

Quinn shook her head.

"The movie?" Tony asked, smiling even bigger. "Wait…Sam…you were Rocky?"

Sam was laughing out loud. "Yeah…the shorts were insane…cut all the way up to…"

"I vaguely remember that, Sam," Quinn said, trying to remain composed.

"Who did you play, Quinn?" Tony asked her, his eyes twinkling.

She shrugged. "A backup singer, I think…"

"She was totally Magenta," Sam answered for her. "And rocked it."

Tony looked at her with raised eyebrows.

"Enough about Glee Club," Quinn said. "Who needs more wine?" She got up to retrieve a second bottle.

"So, Sam, how did you and Miri meet?" Tony asked.

Sam smiled at Miri and reached for her hand. "I was sent to her village as part of a mission to protect the women and children. I was working with the boys, showing them how to throw a football, shooting hoops, and her little bro introduced us. It was love at first sight for me."

"Sam was so patient with the boys and so helpful for our village…all the soldiers were," Miri added. "His hair was something I'd never seen before."

Sam laughed. "Yeah, Quinn always accused me of bleaching my hair. Only a little lemon juice." He sipped some wine. "How about you and Quinn?" he asked Tony.

"We hired in at NARA together. I'm over security."

"Cool. Do you carry a gun?" Sam asked.

"Not for the job. Personally, yeah."

"Like, right now?"

Tony pulled the gun from his ankle holster. "Yeah, right now. Just ask Quinn, you never know when you'll have to bust a guy's head with an Oscar." Tony smiled at her.

"What?"

"Nothing, Sam. Tony likes to joke around," Quinn said, returning the smile.

Sam looked confused but then pulled his phone from his pocket. "Have you talked to Puckerman, Quinn?"

Quinn went on high alert. Noah Puckerman was the last person she wanted to talk about or even think about, especially around Tony.

"Um, yeah, a couple weeks ago, I think…"

"So what do you think of him and Shelby getting married?" Sam asked. He showed her a picture on his phone. "He sent me this of him and Beth."

She glanced at his phone, knowing what the picture was. Of course, Puck had sent her the same picture, telling her that he and Shelby were getting married. He would be in Beth's life full time now.

"I'm happy for them," she replied, quietly.

And then Sam showed his phone to Miri and Tony. Tony took his phone and studied the photo. He looked at Quinn, back to the phone, and back to Quinn. She knew that he knew.

"Cute kid," Tony said, handing the phone back to Sam.

"Yeah…she really takes after Quinn, I think," Sam mused. In the resultant silence, a stray piece of silverware dropped on a plate. Quinn and Tony stared at one another.

After a few moments of silence, Sam finally said, "Tony doesn't know, does he?"

Quinn stood up and started clearing plates. "I have cheesecake for…"

"Uh, Miri and I need to…" Sam looked at his wrist where no watch was strapped. "...be somewhere…else…so thanks for dinner, so nice to meet you Tony, good seeing you Quinn…" While saying all this, Sam was up and over to Miri's side, pulling her up and toward the door. "We'll see ourselves out…thanks again!"

When the door to Quinn's condo closed, Tony stood up and came to her. He took the plates from her hands and set them back on the table. He wrapped his arms around her and whispered into her hair, "Cheesecake sounds awesome."

She couldn't help but laugh a little.

Tony helped her clean up, and they sat down on the floor facing one another with a slice of cheesecake to share.

"Tell me about her," he said to Quinn. She sighed.

"Beth is my daughter; I gave her up for adoption," she started. "She turned ten this year."

He was quiet. She was sure he was mentally doing the math.

"I was sixteen when I had her," she acknowledged. She laughed a bit, wiping a tear from her cheek. "God, I was so young and so stupid."

"Hey," he said, "what is stupid about adoption? You made the right decision."

She shrugged. "Maybe. The whole situation was just a mess."

She told him about Noah Puckerman plying her with wine coolers on a day she felt vulnerable, then her father kicking her out of the house when she finally told her parents, then letting Shelby adopt Beth, and now, apparently, Shelby and Puck getting married.

"It's just…bizarre," she said. "For what it's worth, Puck did turn his life around after high school."

"Sounds like you did, too," he said, shaking his head. "That was a lot for you to deal with."

"Oddly enough, it was the Glee Club that helped me survive. Therapy came later." She took the empty plate and fork to the kitchen. She returned and gave him a hand up off the floor.

"So, my secret's out. I wouldn't blame you if you didn't want to deal with this baggage," she said, sitting down on her couch. He sat down with her.

"I think this is just the part where we get to know each other better, right?" He put his arm around her shoulders. She sniffled a bit.

"I guess so."

"It's been a helluva couple weeks, right?" Tony laughed a little. He found the remote on the end table and turned on the TV. "Let's just be mindless for a while."

Quinn was exhausted and melted into him while a movie played on the TV. She must have fallen asleep at some point because she woke up in the morning covered with a blanket on her couch, Tony gone.